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I'm trying to teach my network on data that is stored in google cloud storage. I'm teaching using google colab pro resources and when I do that, I got around 50$ bill a day for "egress between NA and EU". I'm located in Russia and data storage is in Germany so I have absolutely no idea why this data egress to NA. How can I stop this behavior and why does it happen, because I don't want to pay for something I don't really need.

Link between storage and colab looks like this:

#downloading gcsfuse
!echo "deb http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt gcsfuse-bionic main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gcsfuse.list
!curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | apt-key add -
!apt -qq update
!apt -qq install gcsfuse
#Mounting Raw folder
!mkdir raw
!gcsfuse -o nonempty raw-images-dng-storage /content/raw 

#Mounting tiff folder
!mkdir tiff
!gcsfuse -o nonempty expert-c-images-tiff /content/tiff
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Google Colab server is run in USA (North America).

So, to avoid network cost, you should host your gcs bucket in USA as well (instead of Germany).

korakot
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